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☆ Proposition 1: Californians will vote to make abortion a constitutional right
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( Hannah Getahun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Proposition 1 would make abortion and contraception access a state constitutional right. Supporters say the measure will further protect abortion access for Californians. Ballot measure detailsAfter the US Supreme Court ruled that the right to abortion is no longer federally protected, many states decided to implement abortion bans. However, states like California are taking a different route and voting to continue protecting abortion and contraceptive access as a fundamental right. The constitutional amendment will not change much on abortion law in the state, according to the state's Legislative Analyst's Office.

☆ Republicans' push to kill abortion rights has Democratic women in Pennsylvania rushing to knock on doors and drive people to the polls ahead of the midterm elections
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( Warren Rojas | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

The Supreme Court's reversal of Roe v. Wade this summer pushed Pennsylvania women to action. Fetterman, have worked to keep abortion rights in the conversation. "The future of abortion rights and women's freedom is on the line in this race," Fetterman wrote in a letter he posted online on October 30. Canvasser Toth said she's encountered supporters across generations, billing women and men in their 20s as "very engaged" on abortion rights. Toth told Insider, adding that the 27-year-old woman said, "It's hard to think about any other issue until this one is addressed."

☆ Abortion-rights protesters briefly interrupt Supreme Court
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-02 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: 1 min

WASHINGTON — Protesters opposed to the Supreme Court’s decision overturning abortion rights briefly interrupted arguments at the court Wednesday and urged women to vote in next week’s elections. It was the first courtroom disruption since the court’s decision in June that stripped away women’s constitutional protections for abortion after nearly a half-century under Roe v. Wade. “Women, vote for our right to choose.”The justices did not appear to react to the disruption. The protesters did not resist when police led them away. The court was hearing a case involving reporting requirements under the Bank Secrecy Act.

☆ Effects of Supreme Court abortion ruling: Longer travel time, more requests for pills
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-01 | by ( Aria Bendix | Aria Bendix Is The Breaking Health Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

Infants born as a result of an unintended pregnancy, meanwhile, face a higher risk of low birth weight or preterm birth. Ashana's article asserts that every hour of delayed care increases a patient’s risk of adverse outcomes or death. But in some cases, abortion restrictions require waiting until a person is hemorrhaging or develops sepsis before performing a lifesaving abortion. Hassan said medication abortion presents "a lot of opportunity to be able to expand into places that are geographically difficult for people to access abortion." "There are a lot of things within the health care system environment that could change, including the way we think about where abortion care can be accessed," Hassan said.

☆ The Public Has a Right to Know Who Leaked the Dobbs Draft
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-31 | by ( Alan M. Dershowitz | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Justice Samuel Alito stated last week that the leak of his draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization endangered the justices’ lives: “It gave people a rational reason to think they could prevent that from happening by killing one of us.” A man who was found heavily armed outside the home of Justice Brett Kavanaugh two weeks before the court decided Dobbs has been charged with attempted murder. The leak constituted “a grave betrayal of trust,” Justice Alito added. So why hasn’t the perpetrator been identified and punished?

☆ S.C. governor says marriage should be 'between a man and a woman' at debate
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( Matt Lavietes | Matt Lavietes Is A Reporter For Nbc Out. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster said Wednesday that he would back his state's defunct law banning same-sex marriage if the Supreme Court were to overturn its 2015 landmark gay marriage ruling. "Maybe I'm old fashioned, but I think marriage ought to be between a man and a woman — just like I think that boys ought to play in boy sports and girls ought to play in girl sports," McMaster, 75, said. Cunningham appeared shocked, replying: "It's 2022 and Governor McMaster wants to ban same-sex marriage — you just heard that tonight, folks. If the landmark decision were reversed, it would once again fall to the states to decide on the legality of same-sex marriage. Lawmakers in Congress have introduced a measure that would federally permit same-sex marriage, the Respect for Marriage Act.

Already fighting from behind, Democrats' chances of keeping the House have slipped further in the last month. In a letter to Democratic colleagues on Thursday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called on House members to make a point of defending their record on crime. Republican groups including Citizens for Sanity, headed by former aides to Trump, poured money in recent weeks into ads criticizing Democrats as weak on crime and illegal immigration. In a Reuters/Ipsos poll released Tuesday, respondents were twice as likely to list crime, rather than abortion rights, as the country's biggest problem. Shield PAC, a Third Way-affiliated political action committee, launched ads on Monday promoting the law enforcement records of Virginia's Elaine Luria and Minnesota's Angie Craig, both endangered Democrats.

☆ New frontline of U.S. abortion battles emerges in New Mexico
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-26 | by ( Brad Brooks | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +9 min

A woman and child attend an anti-abortion rally outside of the Hobbs City Commission Chamber in Hobbs, New Mexico, U.S., October 17, 2022. The New Mexican abortion provider within closest reach for most Texas women is currently in Albuquerque - about a four-hour drive from Clovis and five hours from Hobbs. Voters in Lubbock, Texas, which is near the New Mexico border, outlawed abortion in 2021. In New Mexico, Dickson worked with conservative lawyer Jonathan Mitchell, who was the architect of Texas’ 2021 “heartbeat” abortion law. Read more:U.S. abortion clinic moves up the street to escape one state’s banEXPLAINER-How abortion became a divisive issue in U.S. politicsHow Texas’ abortion ban hurts Big Oil’s effort to transform its workforceWIDER IMAGE-With U.S. abortion access in jeopardy, this doctor travels to fill a void

☆ Samuel Alito assured Ted Kennedy of his respect for Roe v. Wade's precedent years before writing the majority opinion that overturned the landmark case: report
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Justice Samuel Alito once told the late Sen. Ted Kennedy that he respected Roe v. Wade's precedent. The NY Times previewed portions of Kennedy's journal in "Ted Kennedy: A Life" by John A. Farrell. Despite assurances from Alito, Kennedy was unconvinced and voted against his confirmation. The June decision overturned Roe v. Wade and made clear that Alito had long been a critic of the case. Long-held precedent, Alito wrote "does not compel unending adherence to Roe's abuse of judicial authorities.

☆ Abortion’s Impact on the 2022 Midterm Elections
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-23 | by ( Miguel Gonzalez | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Gretchen Whitmer, center, has fought to preserve access to abortion. Polls have shown Ms. Whitmer is leading her opponent in the final stretch of the campaign. Welcome to a special edition of WSJ’s politics newsletter looking at how abortion is a factor in the midterm elections. To receive our weekday edition and future special editions, sign up here. Three Questions for WSJ’s Julie BykowiczWSJ: How are voters reacting to the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision in June, which ended the constitutional right to abortion and returned the issue to the states?

☆ Trump joked that the 'only way' to find the SCOTUS leaker from Roe decision is threaten they will be the 'bride of a prisoner'
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-23 | by ( Katie Balevic | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Donald Trump said threats of being a "bride of another prisoner" should be used to find the source of the Dobbs leak. In a rambling monologue, Trump lamented about how "in this country, they leak all over the place, even on the Supreme Court." "By the way, you have to find the leaker of the Supreme, you have to find the leaker. This person leaked from the Supreme Court." And you say, 'That's okay, you're going to jail.'

☆ Following the fall of Roe v. Wade, telemedicine startup Hey Jane just raised $6.1 million to increase access to abortion pills
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( Samantha Stokes | Stephanie Palazzolo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Abortion telemedicine startup Hey Jane raised $6.1 million in funding. Reproductive health startups are receiving more attention from VCs following the fall of Roe v. Wade. The fall of Roe v. Wade earlier this year has caused some states to restrict access to abortions and has thrown reproductive rights into the spotlight. Hey Jane raised $6.1 million in Series A funding from female-led Ulu Ventures, The Helm, Amboy Street, Portfolia, and G9. Moving forward, a key area of focus for Hey Jane will be increasing awareness of medication abortion to the general public, as well as access.

☆ Biden to ask Congress to codify Roe v. Wade abortion rights protections if Democrats keep control
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( Emma Kinery | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

President Joe Biden announced Tuesday that he will push the next U.S. Congress to codify the abortion rights protections outlined in Roe v. Wade if Democrats keep control of the legislature. Biden made the promise during a speech hosted by the Democratic National Committee on Tuesday afternoon in Washington, DC. The president vowed that if more Democratic senators are elected and his party keeps the House in the upcoming midterm elections, the first legislation he will send would enshrine abortion rights protections. Biden aims to sign the bill into law close to the 50th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, which is Jan. 22 of next year, according to a Democratic official familiar with his remarks. Abortion has become a critical issue for voters after the Supreme Court's Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision overturned the protections of Roe earlier this year, sending the issue back to the states.

☆ Clinics offer free vasectomies, citing a surge in demand
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

Sixty vasectomies will be offered over three days in and outside Planned Parenthood clinics in St. Louis, Springfield and Joplin to uninsured patients during the first week of November amid what the clinics say is a surge in demand for the procedure. Guarin also plans to offer discounted vasectomies that month at his regular clinic in the Des Moines area. Guarin, who serves on the medical advisory board for the World Vasectomy Day, helped offer vasectomies last year at the Planned Parenthood in St. Louis to raise awareness about the procedure. In July alone, the Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri performed 42 vasectomies, compared to 10 in the same month last year. Dr. Margaret Baum, the medical director of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri, will be partnering with Guarin to provide the free vasectomies.

☆ Abortion is a key motivator for US voters in midterm elections, new survey finds
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( Deidre Mcphillips | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —About half of registered voters in the United States say they are more motivated to vote in next month’s midterm elections than they were in previous elections – and abortion is a key issue driving that motivation, according to new survey data from the Kaiser Family Foundation. After the decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization removed the federal right to abortion, some states moved to make local laws more restrictive. Voters in states with full abortion bans were more likely to say that those laws were making them more motivated to vote than in prior elections, according to the KFF survey. The economy is the top issue for Republicans, and abortion is the top issue for Democrats. Separately, the KFF survey found that most voters were not aware of the Inflation Reduction Act, which President Joe Biden signed into law in August.

The doctor sent along the questions and answers and received a resounding “no” from the PR official: “We ask that you do not comment to the NY Times at this time.”“They’re censoring me,” the doctor told CNN. Even when they are permitted to speak about abortion as private citizens, these doctors say, their employers have made it clear that they would prefer the doctors not talk at all, and so they have hesitated to speak up. UT Southwestern isn’t the only medical center that has been hesitant to allow their doctors to speak with the media. About 10 hospitals and medical practices said no, Wade told CNN. And I thought we would use our position as a respected women’s health institution to continue to educate about the impact these laws have on women’s health,” she told CNN.

☆ Supreme Court rebuffs fetal personhood appeal
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-11 | by ( ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

The Rhode Island Supreme Court relied on the now-reversed Roe precedent in finding that the 14th Amendment did not extend rights to fetuses. The Roe ruling had recognized that the right to personal privacy under the U.S. Constitution protected a woman’s ability to terminate her pregnancy. The old Rhode Island laws included a criminal statute, predating the Roe ruling, that had prohibited abortions. After the Roe ruling, a federal court declared that Rhode Island law unconstitutional, and it was not in effect when the Democratic-led legislature enacted the 2019 Reproductive Privacy Act. More than a dozen states have enforced near-total abortion bans since the Supreme Court’s abortion June ruling in a case called Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

The Rhode Island Supreme Court relied on the now-reversed Roe precedent in finding that the 14th Amendment did not extend rights to fetuses. The Roe ruling had recognized that the right to personal privacy under the U.S. Constitution protected a woman's ability to terminate her pregnancy. The old Rhode Island laws included a criminal statute, predating the Roe ruling, that had prohibited abortions. After the Roe ruling, a federal court declared that Rhode Island law unconstitutional, and it was not in effect when the Democratic-led legislature enacted the 2019 Reproductive Privacy Act. More than a dozen states have enforced near-total abortion bans since the Supreme Court's abortion June ruling in a case called Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization.

☆ Bernie Sanders says Democrats shouldn't 'focus only on abortion' in the midterm elections even though Republicans are 'genuinely vulnerable' on the issue
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-10 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Democrats are focusing on abortion in this fall's midterm elections after the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Sen. Bernie Sanders is pushing back against that, saying the party should focus more on economics. He also says the focus on abortion is largely the result of "establishment consultants." A Pew poll conducted in June found that roughly six in 10 Americans say abortion should be legal in all or most cases. Democrats have since sought to capitalize on that momentum, framing campaign messages around abortion rights and castigating Republicans for their support of abortion restrictions.

☆ At least 66 clinics in 15 states have stopped providing abortions since Dobbs, analysis finds
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-09 | by ( Julianne Mcshane | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +7 min

At least 66 clinics in 15 states have stopped providing abortions since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June, according to a new analysis from the Guttmacher Institute, an abortion rights research organization. The analysis notes that those states had 79 total clinics that provided abortions before the Dobbs decision, compared with 13 today. All of the remaining open clinics are in Georgia, where a law prohibits abortions once a "detectable human heartbeat is present." The most closings were in Texas, where at least a dozen clinics shuttered, the Guttmacher analysis says. Planned Parenthood also provides STD testing, pregnancy testing, transgender hormone therapy and primary care services, according to its website.

☆ India's top court grants all women the right to safe abortion
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-29 | by ( ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

India’s top court on Thursday upheld the right of a woman to an abortion up to 24 weeks into pregnancy regardless of marital status, a decision widely hailed by women’s rights activists. The right to abortion has proved contentious globally after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned in June its landmark 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade that had legalized the procedure across the United States. “Even an unmarried woman can undergo abortion up to 24 weeks on par with married women,” said Justice D.Y. Chandrachud of India’s Supreme Court, holding that a woman’s marital status could not decide her right to abort. She was referring to the case that led to the U.S. Supreme Court judgment in June.

NEW DELHI, Sept 29 (Reuters) - India's Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that a woman's lack of marital status could not deny her the choice to abort a pregnancy at any time up to 24 weeks, a decision hailed by women's rights activists. The right to abortion has proved contentious globally after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned in June its landmark decision in Roe v. Wade that had legalised the procedure in the United States. "Even an unmarried woman can undergo abortion up to 24 weeks on par with married women," said Justice D.Y. Chandrachud of India's Supreme Court, holding that lack of marital status could not deprive a woman of the right. The court added that sexual assault by husbands can be classified as marital rape under the MTP law.

Flash-forward to today, at the peak of the midterm elections’ race, and the political landscape around reproductive freedom and abortion rights has massively shifted. The Supreme Court’s stunning decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in June swept away abortion rights, allowing the GOP to start making good on the draconian abortion measures they’ve long been cheerleading. And those voters are increasingly in the abortion rights camp. According to Gallup, women support abortion rights by a nearly 30-point margin. President Bill Clinton preferred to discuss abortion as “safe, legal and rare,” a catchphrase that many Democrats adopted later.

☆ DocuSign to cut workforce by 9% as part of restructuring plan
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-28 | by ( Ashley Capoot | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

The Docusign Inc. website on a laptop computer arranged in Dobbs Ferry, New York, U.S., on Thursday, April 1, 2021. DocuSign will lay off 9% of its workforce as part of a major restructuring plan, the company announced Wednesday. As of January, DocuSign had 7,461 employees, and it said the restructuring plan will largely be complete by the end of fiscal year 2023. It expects to incur charges between $30 million and $40 million, largely in the third and fourth quarter of fiscal 2023, as part of the changes. DocuSign announced earlier this month that it hired an Alphabet executive, Allan Thygesen, as its next CEO.

☆ Texas AG Ken Paxton fled home with his wife to avoid subpoena in abortion case, court filing says
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton leaves the U.S. Supreme Court following arguments over a challenge to a Texas law that bans abortion after six weeks in Washington, U.S., November 1, 2021. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton fled his home to avoid being served a subpoena Monday in a federal lawsuit filed by groups seeking to help Texans receive out-of-state abortions, court filings show. When he told her that he was trying to deliver the subpoenas to Ken Paxton, she told him that the AG was on the phone. Herrera, who said he recognized Ken Paxton inside the house through glass on the door, offered to wait for him. "I approached the truck, and loudly called him by his name and stated that I had court documents for him.

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